Tagged With "African American"
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The Little-Known History of the Forced Sterilization of Native American Women (daily.jstor.org)
For many, America’s history of brutal experimentation on people of color is perhaps best summed up by the Tuskegee Experiment , in which doctors let African-American men suffer from syphilis over a period of 40 years. But another medical outrage is less well-known. Jane Lawrence documents the forced sterilization of thousands of Native American women by the Indian Health Service in the 1960s and 1970s—procedures thought to have been performed on one out of every four Native American women at...
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Keeping San Diego’s Urban Indigenous Community Healthy In Mind, Body And Spirit Amid COVID-19 (kpbs.org)
Body, Mind, and Spirit. An indivisible combination that is the cornerstone for holistic wellness for Native Americans. It is also the slogan that appears beneath the medicine wheel on the sign for the San Diego American Indian Health Center . “Da'anzho,” said Ruben Leyva, standing at the corner in Bankers Hill where the clinic is located. “That means ‘hello’ in the Apache language. I am a Chiricahua Chíhénde Apache. I stand here honored and humbled to speak to you on Kumeyaay land.” In order...
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31 billion coronavirus solutions (indiancountrytoday.com)
The American Rescue Plan was enacted by Congress Wednesday and will be sent today to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The U.S Senate Committee on Indian Affairs pegged the total spending for tribes at $31 billion. Rep. Deb Haaland, D-New Mexico, tweeted that she would be voting for the measure to “get urgent relief to families in New Mexico and across the country.” This may end up being Haaland’s last vote as a member of Congress if she is confirmed soon as Interior Secretary. She is a...
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Madam Secretary Deb Haaland is confirmed as the country’s Secretary of the Interior, blazing a trail as the first Native American to ever lead a Cabinet agency (indiancountrytoday.com)
A fierce Indigenous woman is now the caretaker of the nation’s public lands and waters for the first time in U.S. history. Deb Haaland was confirmed as the nation’s 54th Secretary of the Interior in a 51-40 vote Monday, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency. Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan broke from party lines to vote to confirm Haaland, a notable choice given other Republican senators publicly saying she was not the...
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HUD invests $450 million in tribal housing (indiancountrytoday.com)
Tribes in Arizona will get another $88 million in housing grants – the most of any state – from the $450 million in tribal housing assistance released Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The national funding, which was included in the American Rescue Plan, will come in addition to the $651 million that tribes across the country were already scheduled to get in fiscal 2021 under the annual Indian Housing Block Grant. Arizona tribes’ share of the grant rose from the...
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Time of the Sixth Sun (WorldWideWaveProductions)
THE WISDOM OF THE ELDERS Time of the Sixth Sun is an inspirational and uplifting documentary film about the shift in global consciousness and the emerging movement to find a new way to walk more lightly on this Earth. Our ancestors understood our symbiotic relationship to nature and the elements, and foresaw the collapse of an unsustainable world. Filmed predominantly in North America, Mexico, Peru, S.Africa, India, Egypt, Israel and Australia, this film is a synergy of ancient wisdom from...
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What Indigenous food sovereignty means during COVID-19 (indiancountrytoday.com)
Food sovereignty has been important to tribal communities like the Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, but the pandemic amplified the need for it. “With the COVID-19, we saw a renewed interest in returning to holistic ways and traditional ways of living and being and part of that is food,” said Lori Nelson, director of agriculture and land grants at NHS College. And in early February, the college received a two-year $100,000 grant to carry out a...
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Denver donates bison to Cheyenne and Arapaho nations, citing conservation and reparation (upworthy.com)
Prior to European colonization of North America, millions of bison roamed the Great Plains. By the turn of the 20th century, those numbers had dropped to less than 1,000. The deliberate decimation of buffalo herds was a direct attack on the Native American people, who colonizers saw as an obstacle to their "Manifest Destiny, " and who the U.S. government engaged in a systematic attempt to eliminate or force into docile submission. For thousands of years, bison were a sacred, inseparable part...
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Ravilochan: Maslow Got It Wrong
Some months ago, I was catching up with my dear friend and board member, Roberto Rivera . As an entrepreneur and community organizer with a doctorate and Lin-Manuel-Miranda-level freestyle abilities, he is a teacher to me in many ways. I was sharing with him that for a long time, I’ve struggled with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs . The traditional interpretation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is that humans need to fulfill their needs at one level before we can advance to higher levels. As...
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Policy Booklet on the Unique Challenges of American Indians (National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives)
The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is soliciting factsheets addressing the challenges of American Indians. Somewhat similar to our just released structural racism booklet , the purpose of each factsheet is to describe the unique challenges of these tribal communities, the prevailing needs, and potential policy solutions. Dimensions of the issues to be covered might include discrimination and prejudicial practices, acculturation/assimilation challenges, risk for mental...
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Native Americans face a deadly drug crisis. How tapping into culture is helping them heal [news.yahoo.com]
By Beth Warren, Yahoo! News, September 23, 2021 A bashful Native American who thwarted death twice summoned his inner warrior during a summer powwow, dressed in purple regalia and long feathers. Jasten "Jazz" Bears Tail, 36, immersed himself in the movement, a style called fancy dancing, at the event in the North Dakota town of Parshall on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. He stomped and twirled in sync with the pounding of the drums, symbolizing the heartbeat of his ancestors. On the...
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How indigenous tattoos draw a link to the past
Tribal members in Northern California are reclaiming traditional tattoos, especially facial tattoos as a means to connect with their cultural history, a panel of experts in indigenous tattoos told a diverse group of 45 people in attendance at the community event at the Museum of Sonoma County. Those who attended were surrounded by displays of indigenous art, ceramics, and paintings. A spectacular hand carved canoe, used for traditional voyages, tracing ancestral journeys through the Pacific...
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California Ski Resort Removing Native American Slur From Name After Decades of Requests (msn.com)
After ignoring requests to change its name for decades, a California ski resort bearing a derogatory word for Native American women changed its moniker on Monday to Palisades Tahoe. Formerly Squaw Valley Ski Resort, the resort began the process of changing its name last year after a movement for racial justice took hold in the U.S. and abroad. Squaw was originally Algonquin for "woman," but over time it has transformed into a misogynist and racist way to describe Indigenous women. "It was...
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Updates from the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health [caih.jhu.edu]
Native American Heritage Month Events Please join us this November to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. Virtual lectures include an Indigenous food cooking demonstration, Indigenae Podcast screening and discussion, a beading workshop and a keynote address on November 17 featuring Oren Lyons and Thomas Banyacya Jr. Indigenous Food Cooking Demonstration - November 2, 12:00pm EDT REGISTER: https://bit.ly/CAIHxPFG Indigenae screening & discussion - November 8, 12:00pm EDT REGISTER:...
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American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)
Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. Dr. Jean Mendoza joined AICL as a co-editor in 2016. Please visit the website by clicking here, https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/best-books.html?m=1 American Indians in Children's Literature is used by Native and non-Native parents, librarians, teachers, editors, professors,...
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Resiliency Within Podcast: The Wisdom of Indigenous People
Listen to this week’s episode of Resiliency Within "The Wisdom of Indigenous People" featuring Magdalena Sunshine Serrano and Julene Jose who share their wisdom about healing, hope, and empowerment and how the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is congruent to their organic views of healing.
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PACEs Champion Lynnette Grey Bull spearheads trauma awareness, resiliency for Indigenous peoples
Lynnette Grey Bull (l) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Lynnette Grey Bull is founder and director of Not Our Native Daughters , a nonprofit created to educate and raise awareness of the missing, exploited, and murdered Indigenous women and children in the more than 300 tribes across the U.S. Grey Bull was raised in Pasadena, CA, where her parents, who met in college, had settled after leaving Billings, Montana. “I had great memories there,” she recalls. Her mother is Northern...
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How the Dawes Act Stole 90 Million Acres of Native American Land (history.howstuffworks.com)
In the long, dark history of the United States government's mistreatment of Native Americans, most people are familiar with the Trail of Tears , in which approximately 15,000 Native American men, women and children died during forced relocation from their tribal homelands in the American Southeast to Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma. But the theft of Native American tribal land didn't stop with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that authorized the Trail of Tears. Over the next century,...
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Childhood Exposure to Trauma: Tribal Communities
This course offered via Zoom is hosted by California Training Institute (CalTrin). Click here for more information The National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) presents a free course that provides an overview of research on trauma and discusses its relevance for American Indian/Alaska Native people and tribal communities. Participants will learn the varying types of trauma people experience, the impacts of trauma on the developing brain, and how trauma influences emotions, thinking,...
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What does Thanksgiving Mean to Indigenous Peoples? (indypl.org)
November 18, 2021, Indianapolis Public Library — Many American families gather for Thanksgiving, a day to share food, family memories, and gratitude for both. While the arrival of early settlers and the colonization of North America is part of our shared history as Americans, it is important to learn and remember the full history of colonization and the reality that it included centuries of genocide, the theft of land, and oppression. Indigenous Peoples in America recognize Thanksgiving as a...
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My Grandfather Founded the National Day of Mourning for Native Americans. I’m carrying on his legacy. (WashingtonPost.com)
By Kisha James
- Perspective
The Washington Post, November 24 at 4:00 PM ET —
On Thursday, millions of families across the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving without giving much thought to the truth behind the heavily mythologized and sanitized story taught in schools and promulgated by institutions. According to this myth, 400 years ago, the Pilgrims were warmly welcomed by the “Indians,” and the two groups came together in friendship to break bread. The “Indians” taught the...
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Saving Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Youth (advocate.com)
American Indian Heritage Month elevates the diverse cultural history of tribal nations and focuses attention on deep disparities that impact our communities. This year, while a virulent pandemic continues, leading child and adolescent medical groups have designated a national emergency for child and adolescent mental health that disproportionality affects communities of color. Many tribal communities are in remote reservation or rural areas, adding to the challenge of accessing resources to...
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New Innovations to Expand Family Spirit [caih.jhu.edu]
New Innovations to Expand Family Spirit Building on the success of the Center’s Family Spirit early childhood home visiting program, which has been proven over the last 20 years to improve parenting, maternal physical and mental health, and children’s healthy development, we are developing several new innovations to expand the model’s scope and impact. These include new modules focused on: Promoting mothers’ mental health, particularly in the aftermath of COVID Parenting pre-school children...
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AMBER Alert in Indian Country: Issue 4 2021 (amberadvocate.org)
Nearly 10,000 Native Americans—more than 7,000 under the age of 18--went missing in 2020. Those statistics from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) were shared at the first virtual AMBER Alert Indian Country Symposium—which was held in conjunction with the National AMBER Alert Symposium on August 17-19, 2021. Tribal AMBER Alert partners in attendance at this year’s event learned powerful lessons on the accelerated efforts to find missing and abducted children from American Indian...
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A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes (kosu.org)
A conservation group is returning guardianship of hundreds of acres of redwood forestland to a coalition of Native tribes that were displaced from the land generations ago by European American settlers. Save the Redwoods League purchased the 523-acre area (known as Andersonia West ) on the Lost Coast of California's Mendocino County in July 2020. It announced on Tuesday that it had donated and transferred ownership of the property to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council , a consortium...
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The ACF Indigenous Programs Conference
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2022 Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Indigenous Programs Conference! This exciting event will be held virtually via Zoom, starting Tuesday, March 22 through Thursday, March 24, 2022 , with each day starting at 1:30 PM (EST) and ending at 7:30 PM (EST). Below, you will find a copy of the agenda to review the full list of plenary, workshop, and networking sessions. Event Overview & Agenda The meeting will include outstanding Native...
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Strategies to support Indigenous early childhood development programs through technical assistance (childtrends.org)
In response to a Request for Information from the Federal Administration for Children and Families on the technical assistance (TA) needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities providing early childhood programs and services, Child Trends experts offered several strategies for TA providers to meet these needs: Invest in TA efforts that support the implementation and coordination of early childhood programs in Indigenous communities. Increase TA provider capacity around...
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New fund to plant seeds of reparations for California’s Native American communities (calmatters.org)
IN SUMMARY A racial equity organization launched a new $500,000 fund to help Indigenous Californians record the state’s history of colonial violence. Leaders are partnering with the state’s Truth & Healing Council, which will produce a report. A racial equity organization is announcing a new fund that will help Native American communities preserve tribal history and further California’s effort to atone for its history of violence and wrongdoing against Native Americans. The Decolonizing...
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Celebrating Native Fathers (nativehope.org)
A community is only as strong as its mothers and fathers. The heritage of Native Americans is rich in community and family bonds. In the Lakota culture, the word thióšpaye encompasses the conviction that family is made up of immediate blood relatives and extends to all those within their tribal clan. The abundance of a family is the measure of your wealth and creates the very foundation of one's life. This weekend, we're sharing some thoughts about Native men who are strong fathers and...
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How to take an Anti-Racist Approach to Supporting Indigenous Kids (talkingaboutkids.com)
Child Trends’ Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon recently spoke on the Talking about Kids podcast to share anti-racist approaches to supporting Native and Indigenous children. When explaining how to engage in anti-racist and decolonizing research with Native and Indigenous communities, Dr. Gordon underscored the importance of relationship-building, gaining community and individual consent, having an asset-based approach, and valuing Indigenous Knowledge. She added that educators and others...
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California State Assembly honors Native American elders (Indian Country Today)
(Photo: David Monniaux, CC-BYSA 3.0 <creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en> via Wikimedia Commons) News Release California State University, San Bernardino California Assemblymember James Ramos honored tribal elders for working to preserve Native American culture such as language, and songs by teaching them to younger generations of Native Americans. Robert Levi Jr., Elder/Culture Bearer In-Residence saw his father, Robert Levi Sr., a Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian,...
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Assemblymember James Ramos with our students, families, and staff at Alta Vista Innovation High School in San Bernardino, CA.
Photo: (left to right) Assemblymember Ramos’ Staff, Anais Franco, Assistant Principal Sarah Sinopoli, Area Superintendent Janet Wilson, Chairman (former) Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians Dr. Anthony R. Pico, Assemblymember James Ramos, PACEs Science Statewide Facilitator Dana Brown, Chief External Affairs Officer Bob Morales, Community Liaison Stephani Congdon, and Regional College & Career Coordinator Cherie Padilla. Bob Morales invited Assemblymember James Ramos to visit with our...
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Newsom signs bill to boost Native American curriculum (enewspapers.dailybulletin.com)
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians annually hosts thousands of fourth graders at a California Indian Cultural Awareness conference commemorating California Native American Day in September. COURTESY PHOTO Author: Beau Yarbrough's article, please click here. California educators will be working more closely with Native American tribes under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. Assembly Bill 1703, the California Indian Education Act, encourages school districts, county offices...
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Native American students hope a new education law helps reverse years of misinformation (calmatters.org)
Gauge Hernandez, 16, the son of Johnny Hernandez Jr., the vice chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, looks out window in San Bernardino on Sept. 27, 2022. Hernandez is part of a youth committee that is advocating for AB 1703, which will ensure that students have an opportunity to learn about factual historical events involving Native Americans in California. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters Author: Joe Hong's article, please click here. Sixteen-year-old Raven Casas...
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Indigenous Peoples' Day – October 10, 2022 (nationaltoday.com)
Read the National Today post HERE. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October, on October 10 this year, to honor the cultures and histories of the Native American people. The day is centered around reflecting on their tribal roots and the tragic stories that hurt but strengthened their communities. HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY The first seed of Indigenous Peoples’ Day was planted at a U.N. international conference on discrimination in 1977. The first state to...
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Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you (npr.org)
A screenshot of a portion of the interactive map from Native Land Digital shows which Native territories have inhabited different regions of the Americas, based on a variety of historical and Indigenous sources. Native Land Digital/Screenshot by NPR Author: To read Rachel Treisman's article, please click here. President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was...
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Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) Are Twice as Likely to Support Parenting Students With On-Campus Child Care as Other Institutions (childtrends.org)
Authors: To read Jessica Warren, and Deana Around Him 's article, please click here. A new analysis by Child Trends finds that 43 percent of Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) offered parenting students on-campus child care support during the Fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year, compared to 21 percent of other degree-granting colleges and universities, according to the most recent data available from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). TCUs are chartered...
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Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries (SCOE)
SDCOE and CIEFA's Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries To help educators and parents choose high-quality Indigenous authored books, the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) and California Indian Education (CIEFA) have designed this Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries. These books have been vetted by Native American scholars, CIEFA, and SDCOE staff. Please consider adding these...
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New Podcast Sheds Light on Abuses at Native American Boarding Schools: 'Justice Needs to Be Served' (people.com)
PHOTO: Courtesy of IllumiNative To read more of KC Baker's article, please click here. American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools spotlights the atrocities Indigenous children endured for decades at these schools — and how survivors are trying to heal From 1819 through the 1970s, tens of thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their homes and placed in institutions across the nation where they were housed, educated and clothed. But they were also forced to...
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Report finds ‘huge unmet demand’ for afterschool programs among Native American families (youthtoday.org)
Students participate in an afterschool education program in this undated photo provided by Bristol Bay 4-H. Housed at the Bristol Bay Native Association, the Bristol Bay Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program supports 4-H and positive youth development activities in Dillingham, Alaska, and other communities. To read more of Brian Rinker's article, please click here. Native American families nationwide have a need for afterschool programs that outpaces current community resources,...
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Intergenerational trauma, violence leads to cardiovascular disease in Native women (nhonews.com)
(Stock photo) To read more of Kaili Berg's article, please click here. Intergenerational trauma and violence has led to increased cardiovascular disease in American/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) women in childbearing years, according to a scientific statement published by The American Heart Association (AHA) this week. The scientific statement highlights pregnancy risk factors related to cardiovascular health for Native women, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, by a peer-reviewed AHA...
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Native American tribes hail ‘major victory’ after supreme court ruling (theguardian.com)
Demonstrators outside the US supreme court in November. Joe Biden said: ‘I stand alongside tribal nations as they celebrate today’s supreme court decision.’ Photograph: Mariam Zuhaib/AP To read more of Maya Yang's article, please click here. Native Americans, tribal leaders and top Democrats hailed the US supreme court’s decision on Thursday to uphold federal protections for Native American children against removal from their tribal communities for fostering or adoption. Following the...
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The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact (npr.org)
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP To read Nina Totenberg and Meghanlata Gupta's article, please click here. In a major victory for Native American rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld key provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law enacted 45 years ago to remedy decades of past government abuse. By a 7-2 vote, the court ruled that the law does not impermissibly impose a federal mandate on traditionally...
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Reimagining Humanity Launches: A New Short Film And Sequel To Breaking The Cycle
When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.
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Native American Cross Country Prayer Run Arrives in San Diego Wed., June 14 (obrag.org)
To read more of the SOURCE article, please click here. Local Native Americans are about to complete the longest indigenous prayer run in U.S. history. “Run with the Sun” is the brainchild of Lakeside resident Bobby Wallace, a member of the Barona Band of Mission Indians, in hopes of protecting waters across America. “It’s been awesome making changes in people’s minds about water everywhere,” Wallace told East County Magazine in an interview. “We started running, traveling with the water over...
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Biden is creating a new national monument near the Grand Canyon (npr.org)
President Biden disembarks Air Force One at Grand Canyon National Park Airport in Grand Canyon Village, Ariz., on Monday. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images To read more of Tamara Keith's article, please click here. President Biden is designating a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres. The president will give remarks at the...